Coulson
Coulson was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,246 among boys’ names; 478 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Coulson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Coulson?
#5,246 among boys’ names, 2025
Coulson fell from #2,570 in 2015 to #5,246 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 25.0 to 10.5 per million.
48 babies in 2015, the peak
Coulson peaked in 2015, when 48 boys were given it, #2,570 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,246 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,247 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,910 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,323 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,590 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,432 | 18.5 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,025 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,903 | 22.6 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,599 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,009 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #2,570 | 25.0 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,293 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,206 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,694 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,609 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,880 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,434 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,062 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,927 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,302 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,208 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,344 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,589 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,661 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,294 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,884 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,175 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,608 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,108 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Coulson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Coulson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Coulson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Coulson, and how old are they?
An estimated 473 Americans named Coulson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 359 people named Coulson (6 women and girls, 353 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 344 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 17,102 babies since 1880, Coulson is the fifth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 2,234 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Coulson
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Coulson and names like it
- Compare Coulson and ColsonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCoulson peaked in 2015.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Coulson since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Coulson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Coulson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.